The Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities is pleased to announce the winners of its 2013–14 Prizes for Research in the Humanities. The awards will be presented to the following winners at a ceremony on Tuesday, May 6. The Prizes honor excellence in humanities research by faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students.
FACULTY PRIZES
WINNER: Christopher Freeburg (English)
“James Baldwin and the Unhistoric Life of Race,” published in South Atlantic Quarterly 112.2 (Spring 2013): 221-239.
HONORABLE MENTION: Thérèse Tierney (Architecture)
“Reappropriating Social Media: Internet Activism, Counterpublics & Implications,” published in Tierney, The Public Space of Social Media: Connected Cultures of the Network Society. New York: Routledge, 2013.
GRADUATE STUDENT PRIZES
WINNER: Sarah West (Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese)
“A Neoliberal Love Spell, Race, Tourism and the Yucatan Penninsula, An Analysis of Televisa’s Sortilegio,” published in Cameron McCarthy, et al., eds., Mobilized Identities: Mediated Subjectivity and Cultural Crisis in the Neoliberal Era. Champaign: Common Ground Publishing, 2013. Nominated by Professor Eduardo Ledesma (SIP).
HONORABLE MENTION: Christine Hedlin (English)
“‘Was There Not Reason to Doubt?’: Wieland and Its Secular Age,” written for English 547: Early U.S. Fiction and Secularism, taught by Professor Justine Murison in fall 2013.
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT PRIZES
WINNER: Hana Nasser (Political Science)
“Forming a Collective Movement against the Forced Application of Female Genital Circumcision and Intersex Genital Cutting,” written for Political Science 413: Sex, Power and Politics, taught by Professor Frost in fall 2013.
HONORABLE MENTION: Mary Baker (English)
“The Maintenance of the Mainstream: Policing Difference in Mad Men,” written for English 461: American Narratives of Passing, taught by Professor Siobhan Somerville in spring 2013. Nominated by Professor Somerville.
